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This week's topic will be state-space search covering heuristic search and the STRIPS planner.

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This Week's Feature

The Story of A* and STRIPS
Nils J. Nilsson, Professor Emeritus Stanford University
  • Hear something of the origins of A* and STRIPS and their use in the Shakey robot.
  • Previously Director of the AI Center, SRI International.
  • Project Director for the Shakey the Robot project.

The weekly "Feature" videos are required viewing for the Awareness Level of the course.

Awareness Level

For those wanting to follow the Awareness Level of the course you should watch the nominated video lectures marked with ♦ this week, plus the "feature" video. You can watch them at any time during the whole course, and need not view them all at once this week. Optionally watch other videos that may interest you.

Performance Level

This week the first programming and creative assignments are available. These can build up to count towards the Performance Level award.

More details of the Performance Level award is accessible through the link to "Assignments and Exams".

This Week's Additional Stuff

For Week 2 Lectures:

For Lectures 2.8a and 2.8b: Domains and Problems

Dock Worker Robot Example PDDL from Automated Planning Book

Course Badges

Congratulations to all of you who have successfully started the AI Planning MOOC, and thanks for joining in. If you made it to this stage you have already earned your first course "badge" - for those of you that like the idea of "gamification" in education!

You are now able to use this badge on your own web pages, blogs, etc. And you can look forward to replacing it with a mid course badge, and an achievement badge at the end of the course. See more details of AI Planning Course Badges.

Created Thu 23 Aug 2012 5:31 PM CEST
Last Modified Fri 16 Jan 2015 9:44 PM CET